DELHI PRIVATE SCHOOL –DUBAI

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT-2
ENGLISH – GRADE VII
REVISION PAPER
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Section A- Comprehension (20 Marks)

Read the following passages and poems and answer the questions.
A1.
It pains her to see
Animals suffering and hurt
She carries a fur purse
To match her leather skirt

She wastes paper

She has the guts
But oh! How she hates
Trees being cut
Child labour
She condemns vehemently
Why is then her little domestic maid
Never treated gently?

Cruelty to animals
Makes her go boo- hoo
Her favourite outings are
To the circus and the zoo
Looking at her one make the sigh
Too please others she will lie

I hope someday, she will think

And realize she’s just
A hypocrite, a stink!
(5Marks)
a. The tone of the poem is
i. Painful.
ii. Humorous
iii. Gentle
iv. Sarcastic.

b. Feeling pained to see animals hurt is contradictory behaviour to

i. Carrying things.
ii. Using a fur purse and leather skirt.
iii. Having Pets.
iv. Seeing their sufferings.

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c. The word “stink” here means
i. A bad smell.
ii. Severe.
iii. Dishonest.
iv. Trouble.

d. She is a hypocrite because she

i. Lies to please what she pretends to be.
ii. Is not what she pretends to be.
iii. Thinks that she is always right.
iv. None of the above

e. She enjoys going to circus and zoo in spite of the fact that she is against
i. child labour.
ii. wastage of paper.
iii. cutting of trees.
iv. cruelty to animals.

A2. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: (5Marks)
The idea of euthanasia, of hastening the death of someone from motives of compassion, covers two main
situations. The first is where someone is close to death and can be kept alive briefly; with intensive medical
care. The official reason for the use of every possible technique on patients, for whom there seems no hope,
is that we never know that there is no hope of at least a brief recovery.

The second situation, in which it is proposed to end the life of someone who is not expected to die at once
from natural causes, is more morally doubtful. In so far as the suggestion may be based on the notion of the
quality of life experienced by patient, this is an adequate approach to human beings. At one extreme we
may be dealing with a birth that cannot be called “human” at all.

Such a being likely to live at the most for only a few hours. Many feel that during this time it ought to be
given ordinary nursing care. Bringing to an end of the life of say, a spastic child by the deliberate refusal of
the fullest medical care seems morally defensible.

a. The word “ Euthanasia” means ______________

i. A place in Asia.
ii. Bringing about gentle and easy death.
iii. Enthusiasm
iv. The youth in Asia.

b. One reason for trying all possible measures to save a person is

i. Death is horrifying.
ii. There is a possibility of recovery.
iii. Doctors need to be compassionate.
iv. Science may invent more sophisticated machines later.

c. The people who argue for Euthanasia advocate it saying

i. The patient is not living a qualitative life.
ii. We must not spend quality resources on a sick person.
iii. We should not bother about the ailing.

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 iv. It can be defended morally.

d. The words ____________ dealing with a birth that cannot be called “human” at all implies
i. Humans have no control over birth and death.
ii. The person may survive only for a very brief period.
iii. Doctors are incapable of saving people.
iv. The patient may want to die.

e. The writer finds it unpardonable to __________________________________

i. end the life of someone who is not expected to die at once from natural causes.
ii. end the life of a spastic child.
iii. end the life of an infant who is likely to live only for a few hours.
iv. end the life of a human being.

A3. Read the poem and answer the following questions: (5Marks)

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present

As a boy, I stood on the edge of the railway-cutting,
Outside the dark tunnel, my hands touching

The hot rails, waiting for them to

At the coming of the noonday trains,
The whistle of the engine hung on the forest’s silence.

And the train rolled on, everyday

Hundreds of people coming or going
Good bye, good bye!
I haven’t seen you again, the bright boy at the carriage window
Waving to me, calling.
But I have loved you all these years and looked everywhere,

In cities and villages, beside the sea,

In the mountains, in crowds at distant places;
Returning always to the forest’s silence
To watch the windows of some passing train…….

a) Where was the boy standing?

b) Why did the hot railings tremble?
c) Describe the train’s journey.
d) Where has the poet been looking for his friends?
i. Cities and villages.
ii. Besides the sea.
iii. Crowds at distant places.
iv. All of the above.
e) What is the theme of the poem?

A4. Read the following passage and answer the questions: (5Marks)

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Peculiarities of Life
There was a boy at our school; we used to call him Sandford and Merton. His real name was Stivvings. He
was the most extraordinary lad I ever came across. I believe he really liked to study. He used to get into
awful rows for sitting up in bed and reading Greek; and as for French irregular verbs, there was simply no
keeping him away from them. He was full of weird and unnatural notions of being a credit to his parents and
an honor to the school; and he yearned to win prizes, and grow up to be a clever man, and had all those sort
of weak minded ideas. I never knew such a strange creature, yet harmless, mind you, as the babe unborn.
Well, that boy used to get ill about twice a week, so that he couldn’t go to school. There never was such a
boy as that Sandford and Merton. If there was any known disease going ten miles of him, he had it, and had it
badly. He would have bronchitis in the dog-days, and hay-fever at Christmas. After a six week period of
drought, he would be stricken down with rheumatic fever; and he would go out in a November fog and come
home with sunstroke.
They put him under laughing gas one year, poor lad and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set, because
he suffered so terribly from a toothache; and then it turned to neuralgia and ear-ache. He was never without a
cold, except for once for nine weeks while he had scarlet fever; and he always had chilblains. During the
great cholera scare of 1871, our neighborhood was singularly free from it. There was only one reputed case
in the whole parish: that case was young Stivvings. He had to stay in bed when he was ill and eat chicken and
custards and hot-house grapes; and he would lie there and sob, because they wouldn’t let him do Latin
exercises, and took his German grammar away from him.
And we other boys, who would have sacrificed ten terms of our school life for the sake of being ill for a day,
would stay out on blustery days, and it did us good and freshened us up: and we took things to make us sick,
and they made us fat, and gave us an appetite. Nothing we could think of seemed to make us sick until the
holiday began. Then on the breaking days we caught colds and whooping cough and all kinds of disorders
which lasted till the term recommenced: when in spite of everything we could maneuver to the contrary we
would get suddenly well again, and be better than ever. Such is life. (From Three men in a Boat)

a) The author found Stivvings extraordinary because:

i) His name was Sandford and Merton
ii) He would fall ill easily
iii) He loved to study
iv) He used to get ill twice a week
b) Do you think the author is exaggerating Stivvings’ ill-health? Pick out examples from the passage which
suggest this.
c) Complete the following sentences with information from the passage:
i) Stivvings was the object of everyone’s envy because ________________________________________.
ii) When the writer says ’such is life’, he means __________________________________
d) Find words from the passage that have the same meaning as the following:
i) Began again - _______________
ii) Plan skillfully or shrewdly - __________

SECTION B- Writing Skills (20 Marks)

Q5. Given below are a set of instructions on how to buy things online. Write a process for the following in a
short paragraph. (5 Marks)
Instructions- .
i. Visit the seller’s website in order to purchase anything from it.
ii. Select the item or items you wish to buy.
iii. After this, add the item to your cart.
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 iv. Next, visit your cart and move on to checkout.
v. Specify your payment method such as cash on delivery or credit card payment.
vi. If you wish to pay by credit card or debit card, enter your card details.
vii. Once that done, pay the bill amount and buy the item.
OR
You are Anurag/Anuradha of City Public School, Deogarh. Last night you had a really horrible dream.
Taking help from the hints given below, write a diary entry on ‘A Horrible Dream that I had Last Night’.
Hints: • Life is just a dream • sometimes dreams come to me • the dream I had last night might never come
true • first day in the exam • highly worried and confused • paper very difficult • memory failed me •
couldn’t have right answers in mind • similar experience in other papers • results out • faced lot of
humiliation and embarrassment • opened my eyes • it was a mere dream • God forbid it may ever come true.

Q6. Rohit calls up Rajat to make a plan for the weekend. Construct 7 - 8 sets of dialogues between Rohit and
Rajat discussing about your plan. (8Marks)

Q7. You are Sandhya/ Sohan an active member of the Animal Lovers Club which works for the welfare of
animals by preventing cruelty to them. Recently you visited Mahatma Gandhi Animal Care Home. You were
pleasantly surprised to see the good treatment given to the animals. Write a report in (125) words on your
visit.
Hints: injured dogs and cats – abandoned pets – very old animals – all very well cared for – well-equipped
medical room – veterinary surgeon – green surroundings.
(7marks)
OR
You are Binoy/Betty, Head Boy/Head Girl of your School. You are required to speak on ‘Pollution’ in the
morning assembly. Draft a speech in about 120 words.

SECTION C- Grammar (15 Marks)

Q8. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions. (3marks)

a) This material is different _____________ that.
b) They are called ____________ different names.
c) He said that he was very pleased _____________ my work.

Q9. Change the following sentences from active to passive voice: (2 Marks)
1. What is Tanvi doing?
2. Nobody believed their fake stories.

Q10. Change the degrees as directed: (2marks)

a. Martin is not so honest as his brother. (Change into comparative degree).
b. King Lear is one of the most popular tragedies of Shakespeare. (Change into positive degree).
Q11. Choose the correct passive voice from the following options: (2marks)
1. When I saw her, she was crossing the road.
a. When she seen by me, she was crossing the road.
b. When she was being seen by me, she was crossing the road.
c. When she was seen by me, she was crossing the road.
d. When she saw by me, she was crossing the road.

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 2. Did he not listen to his teacher?
a. Was his teacher not being listened to by him?
b. Did his teacher not listened to by him?
c. Was his teacher not listened to by him?
d. Was his teacher not be listened to by him?

Q12. Identify the kind of clause in the following sentences. (2marks)

a. He confessed that he was guilty.
b. Come when you like.

Q13. Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject. (2marks)
a. One of my sisters ___________ (is/are) going on a trip to France.
b. There __________ (was/were) fifteen candies in that bag. Now there _______ (is/are) only one left.

Q14. Mention the kinds of phrase for the underlined words. (2marks)
a. He is wearing a crown made of gold.
b. She performed the task with great skill.

SECTION D- Literature (25 Marks)

Q15. Read the extracts carefully and answer any 3 of the following questions: (3x3=9)

1. But the fortune once do frown, then far well his great renown, they that fawn’d on him before Use his
company no more.

a. Name the poem and the poet.

b. What does the frown of fortune indicate?
c. Why do they fawn on him before?

2. “I think I’ll go to the moon today.”

a. In what context is this said?
b. How is it understood by the listener?
c. Does the speaker have a second meaning in mind? If so, what is it?

3. He stepped slowly to the brink of the ledge and standing on one leg with the other leg hidden under his
wing he closed one eye, then the other and pretended to be falling asleep.
a. Who is “they” in above lines?
b. What was the seagull afraid of?
c. Write the word from the above line which means”the edge of land before a steep slope.”
4. The whale has certainly undergone dramatic changes in its relationship with the humans.
a. Has the whale undergone any changes?
b. What were the human doing to whales earlier?
c. What is the theme of the lesson?
d.
Q16. Answer the following questions in about 30 to 40 words . (8 Marks)

1. Everybody has friends. What is the need of having friends in life?

2. “The sight of food maddened him”. What does this suggest? What compelled the young Seagull to
finally fly?
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3. Mention any two poetic elements with suitable examples from the poem- “Wandering Singers”?
4. What do you know about sperm whale?
5. Do you think Bobby has enough organizing skills? Explain with the lines from the lesson- Zero hour?

Q17. Read Book: Answer any one in about 6-8 sentences: (3Marks)

Write a character sketch in about 80-100 words on any one of the characters whom you like and admire in
the book, “The Girl who drank the Moon.”
OR
Glerk is a monster in the traditional fairy tale tradition. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your opinion,
supporting your position with details form the book “The Girl who drank the Moon.”

Q18. Answer the following question in 120 words. (5Marks)

Imagine you are Thambi from the chapter Everest Reactions. Give a brief account of the different reactions
of elders (astrological aspect, enthusiasts’ opinion, cold storage industry, holiday resort) on hearing the
Everest news. Write your comments on each reaction.
OR
“Children live in a wonderful dream world.” Do you agree why/why not?
Explain the above statement with reference to the lesson Zero Hour. Also share a personal experience
on the same lines.

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